MARK TWAIN
of whose name may still offend the nostrils of
men ages upon ages after all the Caesars and
Washingtons and Napoleons shall have ceased
to be praised or blamed and been forgotten-
Leopold of Belgium.'
It is a sweet thought, nicely expressed.
For the present purpose bygone sins and
dead-and-gone issues do not count. But the
point is that in reading these invectives against
injustice one is in contact with Mark Twain
as vitally as in reading the smiHng pages of
the Innocents Abroad.
An interesting side-issue is found in Mark
Twain's queer obsession with Christian Science.
On this he wrote various articles (in the
Cosmopolitan and the North American., 1899-
1903)9 an-d ended by wasting a whole book
on it. He had taken it into his head that
Christian Science was about to envelop the
world; that it was going to get all the money
and all the world there is—over-ride all political
parties, churches, corporations and govern-
ments, and dominate mankind.
Quite evidently Mark Twain didn't know
what he himself thought about Christian
Science. He was fascinated with its mental
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